To share or not share? (non-)violence, scarcity and resource access in Somali region, Ethiopia

Abstract: "It is often argued that environmental scarcity was a trigger and source of violent conflict, in particular in African countries. At the root of such arguments is a simple environmental determinism, which understands scarcity as undermining co-operative relationships between competing resource users. Robert Kaplan popularised this thesis in his argument about 'The Coming Anarchy', where he interpreted recent civil wars in Africa as an advent of a fundamental environmental crisis. In our view, this conception disregards the crucial role of local-level institutions in governing competing resource claims. In this paper, we present a case study from the violence-prone Somali Region, Ethiopia. We analyse how agro-pastoralist communities develop sharing arrangements on pasture resources with intruding pastoralist communities in drought years, even though this places additional pressure on their grazing resource. A household survey investigates the determinants for different households in

Alternative title
Teilen oder nicht teilen? Gewalt(verzicht) und der Zugang zu knappen Rohstoffen in der Somali-Region in Äthiopien
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 28 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources (ICAR) : Discussion Papers ; Bd. 10

Classification
Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2005
Creator
Bogale, Ayalneh
Korf, Benedikt
Contributor
Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus, Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-117404
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Bogale, Ayalneh
  • Korf, Benedikt
  • Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus, Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie

Time of origin

  • 2005

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